On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:59:56PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Torsten Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 2. You cannot binNMU an Architecture: all package but java packages > >> are usually of Architecture: all. > > > > That may change at some point, there have been rumblings about > > throwing away maintainer-built packages (but still requiring them) and > > building all packages (including arch all ones) on the buildds. > > That will be great because then FTBFS will be discovered sooner than > later for arch:all packages. > By the way, why not simply upload only source packages and let them > get built on buildd.
This saves resources on the buildds and specially guards the slower architectures. The main problem is that if you allow source-only uploads people will upload packages they dont even tried to build locally. And these are often jyst buggy. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
